Badr

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Badr

Total population

33,456

Founded

1982

Land area12 km²

Coordinates30.14°, 31.74°

Demographic figures from CAPMAS (Egypt). Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Badr is a satellite city in the Eastern Area of Cairo, Egypt. It was planned and is administered by the New Urban Communities Authority(NUCA). Badr was established in 1982 according to Prime Ministerial Decree 235/1982 allocating NUCA 3000 acres in the Eastern Desert on the Cairo-Suez Highway. It has since grown to 21,000 acres, and has a 2200 acre industrial zone that includes 564 factories, in addition to 501 factories still under construction.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Nearby places in Cairo

• New Heliopolis
  3.5 mi away
• El Shorouk
  6.8 mi away · pop. 94,582
• Sherouk 2 Ismalia
  7.6 mi away
• El Rehab
  16.1 mi away
• Burg al Hudud
  19 mi away
• Cairo Festival City
  21.1 mi away
• Districts of El Tagamoa El Khames
  21.2 mi away
• El Tagamoa El Talet
  21.8 mi away
• Katameya Heights Compound
  22.7 mi away
• El Qattameya City
  23.3 mi away
• El Dimirdash
  27.1 mi away
• El Faroukiya
  31.4 mi away

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Badr

Awrāq min Badr al-kubrá

Fuʼād Mursī · 2006

Agosto no Cairo (1956)

Urbano Tavares Rodrigues · 1999

Cairo to Constantinople

Francis Bedford · 2013

Umm al-dunyā

ʻAzzah Badr · 2000

Alien corporations in conflict of laws

Amīn M. Badr · 1953

al- Suqūṭ ilā al-ḥaḍīd

Badr al-Dīn Adham · 1991

Cities, Citadels, and Sights of the near East

Sophie Gordon · 2014

Muʻjam alfāẓ al-ḥaḍārah wa-muṣṭalaḥāt al-funūn

Majmaʻ al-Lughah al-ʻArabīyah (Cairo, Egypt) · 1980

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Recently spotted species

Seychelles Scale

Icerya seychellarum

Seen 2026-09-17

Wandering Glider

Pantala flavescens

Seen 2026-09-17

Emerald Cuckoo Wasp

Stilbum cyanurum

Seen 2026-09-17

Brown Widow

Latrodectus geometricus

Seen 2026-09-16

Chocolate-band Snail

Eobania vermiculata

Seen 2026-09-16

Ring-legged Earwig

Euborellia annulipes

Seen 2026-09-16

Ringed Wall Gecko

Tarentola annularis

Seen 2026-09-16

Bicolored Pennant Ant

Tetramorium bicarinatum

Seen 2026-09-16

Southern Flatcoil

Polygyra cereolus

Seen 2026-09-14

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).